Don't rely too much on a flu vaccine, but do wash your hands regularly.
That's the advice from doctors at a time when a flu epidemic has infected an estimated 1.7 million people--mainly children--this season.
Since late January, the number of patients suffering from fevers at Kiyosumi Shirakawa Kodomo Clinic in Koto Ward, Tokyo, has been on the rise. About 20 people per day have been diagnosed as having influenza.
A 38-year-old woman visited the clinic as her 7-year-old son had a fever exceeding 38 C. "I have to be careful so that his 7-month-old sister doesn't get infected," she said. (Yomiuri)
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